Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 22 October 2009.
Brian Iddon
Labour, Bolton South East
10:30,
22 October 2009
Of those 40 to 50 lives lost per annum, 15 could be saved if the European Community directive on fitting retro-reflective conspicuity tape to HGVs were immediately implemented. Why, therefore, has my hon. Friend decided to postpone the implementation of that directive until the very last minute, in 2011? The Freight Transport Association said in Commercial Motor last month that the impact on the industry would be "minimal".